Production of squalene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Englund, Elias ^a   Pattanaik, Bagmi ^a   Ubhayasekera, Sarojini Jayantha K ^b   Stensjö, Karin ^a   Bergquist, Jonas ^b   Lindberg, Pia ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; SQUALENE DERIVATIVE; SQUALENE HOPENE CYCLASE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON DIOXIDE; MUTASE; SQUALENE; SQUALENE-HOPENE CYCLASE; TERPENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOACCUMULATION; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE INACTIVATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LIGHT; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOTYPE; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; LIGHT; RNA, BACTERIAL; SQUALENE; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TERPENES;

EID: 84898721478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090270     Document Type: Article

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